Editorial October 29, 1904 Issue

Reliance on the Divine Nature

Spiritual understanding is changeless.—Science and Health, p. 96.

The stability of the universe, together with the possibility of faith, inheres in the revealed and demonstrable fact that Truth's essential nature is eternally maintained; that there are no uncertainties or inconsistencies in the divine manifestation and government; that God can but be God all the time. Upon repeated occasions Jesus incidentally called attention to the constancy of those orderings and sequences of nature on which the definiteness of human expectation is based. He taught that the surety and precision of its operations, the promise that "byline" the invariable radiation of light, the persistence of parental affection, etc., all the experiences which have begotten the confidence that underlies so much of human judgment and activity, are to render their nobler service as stepping-stones on which we rise to an apprehension of the absolute reliability of spiritual law.

Our unquestioning assurance that the sun will return in the east, and that the seedling will bring forth after its kind,—this is to be the type of our restfulness in the certitudes of Truth. As the builder trusts his plummet, the mathematician his rule, the mariner his star, so are we to trust in the promises of our God. The mere suggestion of the possibility of such a faith will make apparent to all how far short of our privilege we have come, and how easily, therefore, our past failures may be explained.

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